A Trump-Comey Timeline

One day after the acting attorney general warned the White House that its national security adviser was subject to blackmail, the president summoned the FBI director to dinner at the White House, people close to James Comey told NBC News.

At the Jan. 27 dinner, a week after assuming the presidency, Trump requested a loyalty pledge from Comey, people familiar with the dinner say. Comey replied that he could not offer loyalty, but he could pledge his honesty.

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It's not known whether the men talked about national security adviser Michael Flynn. Flynn had been interviewed by the FBI a few days before, on Jan. 24 — grilled about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S., Sergey Kislyak.

It's should come as no surprise that Trump's version of the dinner is different from the account others are reporting, for example, MSNBC:

At the Jan. 27 dinner, a week after assuming the presidency, Trump requested a loyalty pledge from Comey, people familiar with the dinner say. Comey replied that he could not offer loyalty, but he could pledge his honesty.

This account of the dinner contradicts the one President Trump gave to NBC News Nightly anchor Lester Holt on Thursday. Trump said Comey requested the meeting, asked to be retained in his job, and told him he was not under investigation.

James Clapper, who retired in January as director of national intelligence, told NBC's Andrea Mitchell that Comey told him on the night of the dinner the president had invited him — and he was uneasy about it.

"He mentioned that he had been invited to the White House to have dinner with the president and he was uneasy with that," Clapper said, adding that Comey didn't want to create "the appearance of compromising the integrity of the FBI."

The story picks up in March 2017, when Trump accused the FBI of tapping his phone, and Comey questioned Trump's mental health, according to a report in The Hill:

Former FBI Director James Comey reportedly told associates in March that President Trump was "crazy" for suggesting former President Obama had wiretapped him.

Comey also called the president “outside the realm of normal,” according to a report from The New York Times on Wednesday.

The Times said that, in return, Trump was furious when Comey publicly refused to back his claims that he was wiretapped during the 2016 campaign before the House Intelligence Committee in March.

Comey said during the March 20 hearing that the FBI had “no information” supporting Trump’s allegations.

It's possible that Trump got wind of reports that some in his campaign were picked up on recordings of Russian agents made by British intelligence. This is not the same as Trump's accusation that the FBI of literally bugged his personal phone at Obama's behest, which is the accusation Trump made. Trump also claimed that he learned of the phone tap from the "failing NY Times." No such story appeared in The Times.

Incidentally, for those keeping track of Trump externalizations, there are reports dating back to June 2016, that Trump routinely listened in on staff phone calls at Mar a Lago in the early 2000s.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/opinion/james-comey-fbi-mildly-nauseous.html?_r=0
After May 3 President Trump is reportedly angry and reacting to news reports by yelling at the TV.
Then, the focus of the fake news media shifted away from the unpresidented achievements of his early realm and this Comey character tried to not only steal, but tarnish The Donald's glory.
Of course he fired him, the narcissist showoff probably wouldn't be a loyal team player. That type never is.